The Union Minister of Earth Sciences, Dr Harsh Vardhan, has practically inaugurated India’s largest Meteorological Centre in Leh. After the Itanagar Center in Arunachal Pradesh, the Leh Met centre is the highest in the Himalayan area at 3500 metres above average sea level. The AIR correspondent informs that four Automated Weather Stations (AWS) and the Meteorological Department Center for the Ladakh Region have begun work from today. Despite the Covid pandemic, a new centre to cater for the arid cold desert and geo-politically all relevant Ladakh weather requirements has been built within nine months. Minister Harshavardhan said that the Ladakh…
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Talking in favour of the UP Government’s “anti-conversion” law, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said that he does not support marriage conversions. “I want to ask why there should be a conversion. The custom of mass conversions should stop. As far as I know, in Islam, one cannot marry someone from another religion. I honestly do not endorse of conversion for marriage,” Rajnath Singh said. He addressed a question about the abuse of the anti-conversion legislation passed by the government of Uttar Pradesh. Rajnath Singh is Lucknow’s Lok Sabha MP. He said there was a difference between “natural marriage” and a…
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden revealed on Monday the representatives of his White House Digital Strategy Office, where Kashmir-born Aisha Shah has held a senior role. Shah was appointed Manager of Alliances at the White House Global Strategy Office, led by Rob Flaherty, Director of Digital Strategy, as reported by the Biden Transition Team. Brought-u in Louisiana, Shah previously worked as head of digital partnerships at the Biden-Harris Initiative. She presently works as an Advanced Expert with the Smithsonian Institution. Previously, Shah served as an Assistant Manager of the John F Kennedy Center for Performing Arts Corporate Fund, promoting the first-ever…
Superstar Rajinikanth’s announcement shocked that he will not enter active politics or start a political party, political actor Kamal Haasan said he was dissatisfied with the decision. Kamal Haasan said, like the fans of the superstar, that he, too, was saddened by Rajinikanth’s decision, but added that Rajinikanth’s health was important to him. Furthermore, the chief of Makal Needhi Maiam said that after the election campaign, he would speak with Rajinikanth. https://twitter.com/ANI/status/1343808228614762497?s=20 BJP leader Khushbu Sundar also said that she was devastated by the decision, but added that she, as well as his good wishes and comrade, stood by his…
A two-year-old girl who had recently returned to Meerut from the UK with her family tested positive for the new coronavirus strain. The parents of the boy have tested positive for coronavirus, but the new strain has not yet been confirmed in their samples. Four family members tested positive for coronavirus earlier, during which their samples were sent to Delhi to validate the new strain. Out of the four tests, the two-year-old girl tested positive for the new coronavirus strain. Their locality has been sealed while residents in the area are being watched. With this, India reported the seventh case…
The farmer’s protest has caused a huge loss which will reflect the economy. The revenue loss of Rs 267 crore by stopping the employees of 25 toll plazas in various parts of Punjab from collecting toll tax. The Bhartiya Janata Party has slammed Captain Amrinder Singh-led state government for ‘lawlessness in the name of peasant protests in Punjab.’ BJP’s response comes after demonstrators have destroyed more than 1500 cell towers in the province. BJP National Secretary-General Tarun Chugh said that there is a Congress-backed plot in Punjab to break down the state communication structure, and the Center should respond firmly…
Pakistan is becoming a pawn of Chinese strategy and could be used by Beijing to invade Afghanistan after the withdrawal of US troops, said Indian Air Force Chief RKS Bhadauria on Tuesday to clarify the objectives behind China’s Ladakh aggression and the ongoing standoff at the Line of Actual Control. Pakistan is gradually becoming a pawn in Chinese politics. Under the expanded debt trap of the Chin-Pakistan Economic Corridor, we will see more military reliance,” he said. Speaking of China’s global ambitions and military supremacy, the IAF leader said that Beijing is now looking at Afghanistan and discussing the idea…
The U.S. state of Colorado has confirmed what is reportedly America’s first case of a highly contagious coronavirus variant that has recently appeared in Britain, the governor said Tuesday. “Today we discovered Colorado’s first case of the COVID-19 variant B.1.1.7, the same variant discovered in the UK,” said state governor Jared Polis. He added an official statement from his office and state health officials that the man is a “male in his 20s who is currently in isolation in Elbert County and has no travel history.” The person did not have close connections, the statement said, but the situation will…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a meeting today in New Delhi with members of the Jacobite Syrian Christian Church in an effort to settle the centuries-old conflict between the two Syrian church communities based in Kerala. At his office, he met three senior priests of the Church, one day after meetings with members of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church. The two church groups today released different statements, hailing their meeting with PM Modi as “cordial and fruitful” Following the enforcement of the 2017 Supreme Court decision, the feud between the two sects escalated, giving the Orthodox party control of more…
Rashtriya Swayam Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat on Tuesday inaugurated’Kesari Media Studies and Research Centre’ at nearby Chalappuram and said the new generation should remember the wade through which the organisation marched forward. Bhagwat said’Kesari’, a Sangh Parivar affiliated weekly which started publishing in 1951, may be a product of certain thoughts “focused on the upliftment of Bharat”. “Kesari may be a product of certain thoughts focused on the upliftment of Bharat and therefore the new generation should remember the wade through which the organisation marched forward despite all odds,” Bhagwat said after inaugurating the centre by lighting the normal…